7 media outlets are tracing the supply chain feeding organized crime groups in the region. The post Guns, Smugglers, and a Journalist’s Murder on the Paraguay-Brazil Border appeared first on Forbidden Stories.| Forbidden Stories
Internal documents reveal how the Paraguayan Prosecutor’s Office failed to properly investigate the kingpin of the drug trafficking organization suspected of the murder. The post ‘Organized crime has infiltrated the Prosecutor’s office’: The killing of a journalist and the rot in Paraguay’s justice system appeared first on Forbidden Stories.| Forbidden Stories
Eulalio “Lalo” Gomes Batista, a Paraguayan congressman and businessman, was killed in a 2024 police raid at his home. Internal documents obtained by Forbidden Stories and its partners reveal that authorities had been warned about his alleged ties to drug trafficking—including direct money transfers from and to companies linked to drug lords—as early as 2017, years before any formal investigation began. The post How a prominent politician and businessman’s fall exposed corruption in...| Forbidden Stories
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